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Original Paper

Kristýna Hrdličková, Khasbar Bolormaa, David Buriánek, Pavel Hanžl, Axel Gerdes, Vojtěch Janoušek

Petrology and age of metamorphosed rock in tectonic slices inside the Palaeozoic sediments of the eastern Mongolian Altay, SW Mongolia

Journal of Geosciences, volume 53 (2008), issue 2, 139 - 165

DOI: http://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.027

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